Monday, August 6, 2012

Hey,
sorry everyone, but this week's email is gonna have to be a short
one. I went with Elder Christensen to Yokohama today for p-day, and
we ended up getting back later than planned, so now I'm writing this
real quick after our daily planning. So! That being said, here are
some highlights for you all. The work is going fairly well here in
Yamato. The members are great, and are always very helpful. Elder
Christensen and I are working hard trying to find some new
investigators, and are still working with our current investigators
who are for the most part progressing, but only slowly. The other
day, we actually streeted an older gentleman who was riding his bike,
and we had an almost 15 minute conversation with him. During the
course of that conversation, we found out he was 82. I was impressed.
how many 82 year olds do you know that can still ride a bike around
town? Crazy. So yesterday, Sunday, one of the members (Brother Honda,
the brother of Elder Honda who I became friends with at the MTC)
shared his testimony during sacrament meeting, and related the gospel
to Kung Fu Panda. It was probably my favorite testimony of the day.
It was about the part when Master Ugway is talking about the peach,
and how even if we can decide when to harvest the fruit or where to
plant the seed, nothing we can do will change the fact that it will
grow into another peach tree. Elder Christensen and I also got to go
to primary for the 3rd block of church. That was way awesome. The
primary in Yamato ward is full of some really great kids. I had a
great time, and it really reminded me alot of teaching primary back
home. Today for p-day, like I said Elder Christensen and I went to
Yokohama. We went to a place called landmark tower, which has an
enourmous mall on the bottom 5 floors. We went to the pokemon center,
which is a store dedicated to pokemon and pokemon merchendise. As you
could probably expect, since we're in japan after all, the place was
packed, and the customers were literally all ages, from stroller aged
kids to 30+. We then went to the Shonan Jump store, which carries
merchandise for alot of the more well known and popular anime series
in Japan. We then went to China Town just a few blocks away, and
explored over there for a while. Oh. and while we were grocery
shopping, I managed to find a pineapple. I'm excited for that,
especially since fruit tends to be pretty expensive in Japan and I
got it for a good price.

That's
about it for now! like I said, I don't have a whole lot of time since
Elder Christensen and I got back late. I'll try to get a more
complete email to you all next week! Love you, and it was good to
hear from you all!